1) If you look down, on the right of the blog, you'll notice I'm an atheist - not one of your "GOP stalwart 'Christian' types".

2) Dude, jokes is jokes. I hardly have "a salacious or prurient interest" but, clearly, a different frame of reference than you.

3) Julian Assange hardly looks like "a regular Joe" to me - he looks weak, and effeminate, and politically "progressive" - like the kind of guy most regular Joe's have to take a second to wonder if he's gay or not. Thus, the joke.

4) I think what I see, that you don't, is the world through a lens that hasn't been feminized. Where jail and prison, and what goes on there, isn't some big whoop but a fact of life. I've also seen Assange's NewAge writings, along with his egotism (he did elect himself to "free" me from my government without my asking) all of which I find pretty laughable and, in some cases (like the rape charges against him) disgusting. Face it: